FLPvP…

@Slots: If you dont ahve already this machine, I recommend you to try a level lower. 50 Slots are more than enough for the beginning (IMHO), just a friendly advice.

@1: It was firstly introduced in FLAC, but there is a Plugin for FLHook, written by Cannon. Check out plugin area for that.

@3: Wodka started a new try, he might help you with that. Otherwise you should try to run FL at one core and all other programs and server tools (like FLHook, Server Operator etc.) on the other

You should never run FLServer only on 1 core because that way you lose performance.
The directplay server is already threaded.

1 core on a half-decent CPU is ‘more’ than enough, I feel I should point out though.

Nope.

^ I was speaking about a decent single-core CPU there… not forceably doing anything to affect the affinity on a multi-core processor. That’s plain asking for trouble. Threading will take place on either, although not as efficiently, and of course with less processing power.

FLAC utilises dual core systems

@Prod!gy:

2. Can I close the jumphole in Tohoku from both sides rather than just from the Chugoku side completely serverside? Also get rid of the NPCs? Or actually just remove the NPCs completely and still remain only a serverside mod?

I see this wasn’t answered at all. You can lock jumpholes/gates/bases etc serverside. Find the hole you want, in your case those two holes (one for each side) should be:

Ku06_to_Ku07_hole

&

Ku07_to_Ku06_hole

Giving them both a run through something like CRCTool will get you the 10-digit decimal hash you need to introduce into the initialworld.ini file.

2711806985

&

3051850763

As such your initialworld locked gates section should look something like this:

;@#Group File

[locked_gates]
locked_gate = 2711806985     ;Ku06_to_Ku07  ;Ku06_to_Ku07_hole
locked_gate = 3051850763     ;Ku07_to_Ku06  ;Ku07_to_Ku06_hole

;locked_gate = 2284213505        ;Li05_to_Li01  ;Li05_to_Li01
;locked_gate = 2293678337        ;Li01_to_Li05  ;Li01_to_Li05
;locked_gate = 2711806985        ;Ku06_to_Ku07_hole  ;Ku06_to_Ku07_hole
;locked_gate = 3051899916        ;Ku07_to_Ku05_hole  ;Ku07_to_Ku05_hole
;locked_gate = 2640501769        ;Ku05_to_Ku07_hole  ;Ku05_to_Ku07_hole

The “;Ku06_to_Ku07 ;Ku06_to_Ku07_hole” as you might have guessed aren’t necessary. Just merely comments letting you know where they are. You might want to make them more descriptive, such as using “; chugoku to tohoku jumphole” in there and vice-versa. It’s really straightforward to do this sort of thing, and it is completely serverside.

I believe NPC-spawning is serverside too. Although never having done such a change myself means I can’t advise you further. I think it can be just as simple as removing pop/patrol zones from the system files, or reducing max battle-sizes (whether or not 0 will even work is unknown to me), but I have heard that NPC spawns are also server-controlled, so i’m sure it is an option for you.

All the best!

concerning the CPU and the performance you better should listen to w0dk4
he has more than enough experience with that stuff

Whatever bud.

Thats one thing im wondering as well…

Windows server 2003 64 bit does FL run under that? … and how stable does that run?
(im working on a small project for the future, and err only servers i have left are with w 2k3 and 64 bit)

it does run… and it does run very stable under win2003-64
CF is running on it for 2 years meanwhile… but due to 64bit a few FL tools have minor problems

dunno what old clan mates have to do with that

basically you can run all tools if you can handle the error logs… eg. cheaters death has a firewall problem under 64bit which creates an error log that can easily fill the entire disc space in 1-2 months